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- ISBN-10 : 0190605626
- ISBN-13 : 978-0190605629
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Written by award-winning author Donald R. Prothero, The Evolving Earth provides a lively, engaging tour through 4.5 billion years of earth and life evolution. Completely up-to-date, the book focuses on the evidence for “How do we know what we know?”–explaining how geologists and paleontologists developed our knowledge about the ancient past–rather than focusing on memorization.
Table contents:
Part I: DECIPHERING THE EARTH
Chapter 1. The Abyss of Time
Chapter 2. Building Blocks: Minerals and Rocks
Chapter 3. It’s About Time! Dating Rocks
Chapter 4. Stratigraphy
Chapter 5. Plate Tectonics and Sedimentary Basins
Chapter 6. Evolution
Part II: EARTH AND LIFE HISTORY
Chapter 7. Birth of the Earth
Chapter 8. The Early Earth: The Precambrian
Chapter 9. The Origin and Early Evolution of Life, (4.6-0.6 billion years ago)
Chapter 10. The Early Paleozoic: Cambrian-Ordovician, 541-444 Ma
Chapter 11. The Middle Paleozoic: Silurian and Devonian, 444-355 Ma
Chapter 12. The Late Paleozoic: Carboniferous and Permian, 355-250 Ma
Chapter 13. The Mesozoic: Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous, 250-66 Ma
Chapter 14. The Cenozoic: Paleogene and Neogene Periods, 66-2.6 Ma
Chapter 15. The Cenozoic: The Pleistocene, 2.6 Ma to 10,000 years ago
Chapter 16. Human Evolution
Chapter 17. The Cenozoic: The Holocene—And the Future, 10,000 years ago to the Future
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